Movie and TV icon Alan Alda turned 89 on January 28, 2025. However regardless of a profession that started within the early Nineteen Sixties and continued to a 2022 position on Ray Donovan, with an Oscar-nominated flip in Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator alongside the best way, to many people, Alda will all the time be greatest generally known as Hawkeye, the wise-cracking surgeon on the coronary heart of M*A*S*H.
Tailored from a 1970 movie, M*A*S*H was nominated for greater than 100 Emmy Awards over its 11 yr run, profitable 14 (together with two Greatest Actor awards for Alda). The finale, broadcast on Feb. 28, 1983, was the most-watched and highest-rated single tv episode in TV historical past on the time, with a record-breaking 121.6 million viewers.
However what occurred to the solid of M*A*S*H after the director yelled the ultimate “Lower?” Right here’s what we discovered.